"It is while
searching for the most enriching part that feels most like progress. You must
never stop and stay as you are - there's still more to the top. It's that
feeling of betting on one's own possibilities. Even if I were to rewind my
own life, I wouldn't want to rewind it anywhere."

[BGM 'Sakura']

Ahh, I guess I'm the
same? For those last words. This is a quote by J-league professional football
player from FC Yokohama, Miura Kazuyoshi-san. It means that we should always
keep moving forwards.

True to those words,
Miura Kazuyoshi-san scored a goal in the match the other day. Confidently, he
updated his record of being the oldest J-leaguer to score a goal.

That's amazing. He's
48 years old. I couldn't do it. I mean, in football you'd be constantly moving,
right? So if you really didn't have the physical strength, it'd be
impossible. Even with dancing, it's not like I continuously dance all that
much. It's really amazing. Like it has nothing to do with his age.

So even if your life
were to be rewound, he wouldn't want to rewind it. Mm. I wonder what it means
by 'rewind'?

For example, if
there was something you'd like to do over again that happened 10 years ago.
So you went back to amend it. So you go. Would you be able to come back
instantly, I wonder?

(laughs) That's the
thing. Often, there are people who say they'd like to rewind things but...
Say you rewound time and went back to fix the things you regretted. Then from
there it's 10 years. Would you do things for the next 10 years according to
how your present-day self felt? Or would things change again? Like, with one
thing or another, if you also made other mistakes, you wouldn't be bringing
back the memory, would you? And then you wouldn't become you.

So for example, you
rewound things and fixed them, then even if you returned to present-day,
things would be a little different, right? That's the sort of thing I mean.
So that's why I'm the same as Kazu-san and I wouldn't want to rewind
anything.

If things were
rewound, in a certain sense, things would be completely like that. For
example, if you were to go back to when you were born, it wouldn't be like
you could immediately talk.

It's tough, this. So
it couldn't be done. All this back to the past business. It's pretty well
done, isn't it, this life?

When I was in my 5th
or 6th year in elementary school, we had a football at home. So I'd forever
be juggling the ball by myself. It was like I liked juggling. It's just that
I really sucked at it. There was only one time I managed an incredible succession
of it. That was 37 times.

Nothing to shout
about, right? But that's the only personal record I can remember.

If I tried to do it
now, would I be able to, I wonder? I should try to surpass that. Buy a
football and all. Even if it's just 40 times. I can't do it outside, so I can
only do it at home. It's scary, doing it inside my house. I have figures and
stuff there.